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George Duke wrote on Thu, Aug 15, 2013 12:15 PM EDT:
No one wants the latest Fritz anymore except a little nerdy status.
Get ready for the transition to CV takeover.  It never was the best Chess
anyway -- now being able to see regionally around the world.  That is, 8x8F
was so much smaller than 9x10X and 9x9S all along.  Really any 8x8 is
quaint period piece for problem themes only.

This is about Tournament play.  Name the next Tournament "the CV World
Championship."  Select 5 CVs larger than 71 to play with intention to find
and keep the 5 best eventually, but each year at first replace 3 or 4 of
them from the previous year until there are that 5 that everyone regards
should not be changed rules-wise.  It may take til 2020 to get the
inviolate immutable five.  But each year play with what you've got.

A game has to end in a month, even if only 2 or 4 players comply and become
eligible.  Instead of a move a day, players should negotiate for mutually
convenient play-time-slots, for example New York time 9am-12 Saturday, and half
a game would have to be played in those three hours, even if the two
players happen to locate in Chicago and Berlin respectively. 

By year three 2017, just drop "Variant" from the name of the tournament,
and call it and declare the Chess World Championship year 2017-18.  If there are 5 agreed
on forms of Chess, formerly CVs, then it's the World Chess Championship
bona fide and par excellence.  There was no cycle before Paul Morphy in
1859 beat Bird and enough others in France and England, no run-up to his
being #1 the reigning world champion.  We may have some Joe Joyce versus
Antoine Fourriere for the global title before we know it, as one
speculative pairing, finals or not.

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